**Pedestrian Injured in Pietà Traffic Accident: A Wake-Up Call for Malta’s Road Safety Culture** A pedestrian was injured in a traffic accident in Pietà on Tuesday morning, prompting renewed concerns over road safety in one of Malta’s busiest commuter hubs. The incident occurred at around 8:15am near the Msida Yacht Marina junction, a notorious bottleneck…
MCAST welcomes first ERA fellow: A Maltese milestone in European research By Hot Malta Staff The Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology (MCAST) has just chalked up a national first: Dr. Lara Pace, a 29-year-old molecular biologist from Żejtun, has been awarded the European Research Area (ERA) Fellowship—becoming the only Maltese researcher, and the…
**Rock Classrooms to Rock Stages: Malta’s Own School of Rock Storms MCC This October** Valletta’s Mediterranean Conference Centre is about to get a whole lot louder. This October, the aisles that once echoed with ecclesiastical chants will reverberate with power chords when Malta’s first licensed production of *School of Rock – The Musical* premieres, bringing…
Valletta’s Republic Street was already buzzing with late-afternoon shoppers yesterday when the push-notification lit up phones: the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada will formally recognise Palestinian statehood within the 1967 borders. By the time the church bells struck six, the foyer of the Mediterranean Conference Centre had morphed into an impromptu forum—Maltese students still in…
**Watch: Man critically injured in Vittoriosa shooting** A man is fighting for his life after a shooting in the historic heart of Vittoriosa late Monday night, sending shockwaves through the normally tranquil Three Cities community. The victim, identified by sources as a 42-year-old Senglea resident, was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Triq il-Mina l-Kbira…
**Man critically injured in Vittoriosa shooting: Silent streets in Malta’s historic maritime heart** Vittoriosa’s winding alleys, usually echoing with the clack of heels on limestone and the clink of wine glasses spilling onto cobbled squares, fell unnaturally silent last night after a 34-year-old Bormla man was shot twice in the chest outside the old Armeria…
# Fourth Edition of Oratories Cultural Programme Brings Village Squares to Life Across Malta The narrow streets of Malta’s historic villages will once again echo with music, debate, and children’s laughter as Arts Council Malta unveils the fourth edition of the Oratories Cultural Programme, a summer-long festival that turns centuries-old parish halls into pop-up stages…
**Five Female Artists Transform Mosta Into a Celebration of Womanhood and Island Heritage** Mosta’s iconic dome has witnessed countless processions, feasts, and fireworks, but this week the rotunda is sharing the spotlight with five home-grown women who are quietly reshaping Malta’s cultural map. Inside a 19th-century townhouse just 200 metres from the basilica, the exhibition…
Academy of Givers AGM celebrates milestones while re-writing Malta’s philanthropy playbook Valletta’s 17-century Sala Nobile at the Casino Maltese felt more like a living room last Thursday evening as 120 donors, volunteers and NGO leaders squeezed onto velvet-lined benches to toast a quietly revolutionary year. The Academy of Givers—Malta’s only membership network dedicated to strategic…
**Aldo Micallef-Grimaud’s Legacy Comes Home: Landmark Retrospective Opens at MUŻA** Valletta—The city’s baroque balconies were still dripping from an early-summer shower when the doors of MUŻA swung open on Friday night for the first comprehensive retrospective of Aldo Micallef-Grimaud, the Maltese artist who painted the island’s post-war soul in hues of terracotta and cobalt. Curated…
**”Slime” Sensation: Marsascala’s Coastal Mystery Solved, But Questions Remain** Marsascala, the sun-kissed fishing village turned weekender magnet, woke up to an alien invasion last Sunday. By dawn, social media was frothing like a badly-poured Kinnie: photos of a glistening, khaki-coloured slick hugging the inner bay, captioned “#SlimeInMalta” and “something’s fishy in Marsa-scare-la”. Parents yanked toddlers…
No smoke on the horizon: Golden Bay and Ramla l-Ħamra stub out beach cigarettes Golden Bay’s sunset watchers and Ramla l-Ħamra’s early-morning swimmers have one less thing to cough about this summer. As of 1 June, both beaches are officially smoke-free except for small, sign-posted zones tucked behind the dunes. The ban, issued by the…
